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In the 150 years since Turkey Red Winter Wheat was introduced to the U.S., there has been no other advancement in agriculture quite like the 50 years that came during and after World War II.

 

Our nation was experiencing a shortage of food and labor for the war. There weren’t enough men or machines to harvest the additional 13.8 million acres of wheat that the War Food Administration called on U.S. farmers to plant during the 1944 season.

 

The U.S. farmers responded by challenging the decision of planting more acreage, if they could get machines to harvest the grain.

 

Joseph M. Tucker from Massey-Harris Co., Ltd, approached the administration with a proposal: to provide sufficient engines and steel for the construction of 500 self-propelled 21A Massey-Harris combines. The condition was simple: Massey-Harris would only sell these machines to operators willing to commit to harvesting a minimum of 2,000 acres of wheat per combine.

 

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To support the war effort here at home, the Harvest Brigade was created.

They traveled more than 1500 miles, from Texas and California, and upward into Canada, harvesting more than 25 million bushels of wheat which spread over more than one-million acres.

It wasn’t until 1945 that Inman and Buhler joined the custom harvesting ranks in response to the Harvest Brigade.

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